It’s happening again! The Russians are trying to “influence” the next election in our country. Strike that, “overturn” our election. No, hang on a minute, they’re trying to “ruin” our election, except in the case of Democrats winning.
Then, to quote, paraphrase, or obfuscate President Obama (when they all thought Hillary would win) “… Ha ha ha ha, the Russians couldn’t possibly affect our elections,” which quickly turned into the Russians hacked the DNC, and Trump helped them, and he hired prostitutes to urinate on Russian hotel beds.
Well fear not, Facebook is on guard. They’ve already sniffed Russian intervention or influence. Strike all that “Russians trying to ruin our election.” Ol’ Zucks on the battlement! Challenging are you “friend or foe,” “fish or fowl,” “citizen or Russian.” Local talk show host Andy Caldwell ran afoul with his Facebook page and was challenged to prove he was American. “Show us a copy of your driver’s license and passport and pictures of identifying birthmarks,” they demanded. Thank God he had birthmarks. Pity the children who ran afoul of Planned Parenthood.
So, now you need to show ID to drive or fly or buy alcohol and now pot, and you can’t post political (I’m thinking only conservatives) mentions, references, belches, or gas on Facebook unless you show ID. That’ll show them.
In the meantime, the FBI has, after 13 years announced a break in the theft of Judy Garland’s ruby slippers. Well done lads. Scotland Yard sends you their praise. Meanwhile, after a year and a half they still haven’t found any collusion between the Russians and Trump right in the middle of Hillary’s Russian collusion with the Steele dossier. I’m not sure what the equivalent to “tone deaf” is when you can’t smell a red herring, but fish or foul the real problem is with all this ID business. Why are we not requiring that voters show ID? Do you Democrats trust that all Republican voters are citizens? They could be Russians. Really.
This article appears in Sep 20-27, 2018.